This is Joy Obidike's Blog: January 2016

Saturday, 30 January 2016

See Blac Chyna's mugshot after being arrested at Austin airport after 'getting drunk and aggressive'

It looks more like a selfie to me though!

Blac Chyna's mugshot has been revealed after she was arrested on Friday for public intoxication.

The shot sees the 27-year-old make-up free with a small smirk on her face, while dressed in a striped prison jumpsuit.

Mum-of-one Blac, real name Angela Renée White, was flying from Los Angeles to London via Austin, where she was stopped by police when she tried to board her connecting flight.

A mad woman believed to give lucky numbers to pool betters have been besieged by money-hungry men in search of fortune.

The woman pictured above sitting with her back to the camera is said to be a mentally unstable woman.

According to reports, the people gathered around her believe she gives lucky numbers for betting games as a few have supposedly testified. See another photo after cut...

Just ten days ago a Nigeria-born basketball player for Colorado State University, Emmanuel Omogbo, lost his parents, Sampson & Carolyn Omogbo, and his 2-year old twin nephew and niece to a fire accident in the United States. if you missed it, read here

Now, it has been reported that another US-based Nigerian, 26-year old Jeremiah Owojori, his pregnant wife, Ashley, their 5-year old son and seven month old son, have all died in a tragic fire incident at their residence at 201 Coleman Street in West Monroe, Louisiana.

The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has alerted the general public about the new ways terrorists have started operating. They now disguise themselves as madmen to carry out their suicide attacks.

Defence spokesman, Brigadier General Rabe Abubakar, who raised the alert yesterday January 29th, said the recent suicide attack in Gombi, Adamawa State was an example of such tactics.‎

Photos: Crowd Jubilate With Wike Over Supreme Court Victory on Streets of Port Harcourt

Governor Wike is currently widely celebrated in Rivers state after his victory at the apex court which upheld his election as governor of the state

The Supreme Court gave the ruling validating the April 11 governorship election on Wednesday but did not provide reasons for its judgment. This marked an end to the gubernatorial power tussle between the All Progressives Congress and the PDP in Rivers state as the leadership of the APC has conceeded defeat.

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In a recent review of the Nigerian economy, International News magazine, The Economist, has said President Buhari is making the same mistake he made back when he was the nation's head of state.

The popular publication has said President Buhari is making the same mistake now he made with the falling Naira when he was Military leader 30 years ago.

Read the article below ...

"Give me lucky generals,” Napoleon is supposed to have said, preferring them to talented ones. Muhammadu Buhari, a former general, has not had much luck when it comes to the oil price. Between 1983 and 1985 he was Nigeria’s military ruler. Just before he took over, oil prices began a lengthy collapse; the country’s export earnings fell by more than half.

I came across this chilling story on Facebook, I will post it just as the writer said it, I guess it serves as lesson to young girls with 'long throats'...

This lady was buried alive in a pit in Tanzania and was being feed twice a week by her rich boyfriend for money rituals. See how that beauty faded away and it will take a miracle for this lady to become normal again .

See graphic photos after cut...

President Muhammadu Buhari declared late Wednesday in Nairobi, Kenya, that he was yet to be convinced that Nigeria and its people will derive any tangible benefit from an official devaluation of the Naira.

Speaking at an interactive meeting with Nigerians living in Kenya, President Buhari maintained that while export-driven economies could benefit from devaluation of their currencies, devaluation will only result in further inflation and hardship for the poor and middle classes in Nigeria’s import-dependent economy.

Newly engaged Mariah Carey and James Packer wont have a pre-nup

Mariah Carey and James Packer are reportedly planning to marry without a prenuptial agreement to protect their fortunes.

The couple - who revealed their engagement last week - are each hoping this marriage will be third time lucky as they prepare to tie the knot.

An unidentified woman shocked passers-by after she gave birth to a bouncing baby girl at very busy Upper Iweka in Onitsha. In order to secure some privacy, she crept inside the drainage to birth her baby.

It is reportedly said that the woman experienced labour pains as she was walking and before help could come, she was already delivering the baby. See photos after cut...

Olisa Metuh is released - eats dinner with his family

Embattled Publicity Secretary for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Olisa Metuh, was released on bail from Kuje Prison on Thursday. His release followed his meeting the bail conditions set by the courts hearing his case.

The Director of New Media for the PDP, Deji Adeyanju, tweeted a photo of himself and Mr. Metuh moments after the latter’s release from Kuje. He was later pictured having dinner with his family last night.

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Be Inspired!

I found this on Twitter and thought I could share to elate someone's spirit this afternoon...I hope it does #sigh

Credit: @AnnaDanBib

So Awful! Man Dips Fingers into Private Part of 8-months Pregnant Woman in Broad Daylight in Lagos

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a diploma holder, Samuel Onochie, for allegedly sexually assaulting a pregnant woman, Esther (pseudonym), in Jakande, in the Eti-Osa Local Government Area of the state, according to the Punch.

It was learnt that the woman, said to be eight-months pregnant, was passing through the area on Sunday at about 6am, when Onochie ambushed her. The 34-year-old suspect, who told the police that he bagged a diploma in law from a university in Benin, Edo State, reportedly threw Esther on the floor and stripped her wrapper.

Facebook Founder, Mark Zuckerberg says He rather invest his time to serve more than 1 billion people everyday than invest in cloths.

Popular notion may have it that when you're the CEO of a multi-billion company, you are expected to have top notch style, a refined sense of fashion, and all that responsibility to turn up suited up day in and day out. However, Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook, and a new dad to his beautiful daughter, Max, is not your conventional CEO. He believes there are far more important things than dressing up in a certain way.

Expectant mum suffers womb rupture in police cell

AN expectant mother, Mrs Tosin Taiwo, is battling to save her unborn baby after allegedly suffering a womb rupture following her collapse in police custody on Tuesday.

Mrs Taiwo who claimed to have bled for two days in police cell, said she was rushed to Randle General Hospital in Surulere, where it took doctors two hours to revive her.

She said she spent four days in detention at Surulere Police Station and was denied bail by the Investigating Police Officer (IPO). Mrs Louisa Njoku, who claimed to be acting on “orders from above”.

President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, sent his first two executive bills to the Senate, seeking to prohibit money laundering and criminal activities in the country.

The bills are:”The Money Laundering (Prevention and Prohibition) Bill, 2016″ and “The Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Bill, 2016.”

Buhari, in a letter to the the Senate and addresed to the Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, said he was introducing the bills for formal consideration and enactment into law by the legislature.

EFCC gives Obaigbena two-week ultimatum to refund N670m

As the ongoing probe of $2.1billion arms deals continues, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday gave “ThisDay” publisher Prince Nduka Obaigbena a two-week ultimatum to refund N670million allegedly collected for unexecuted contracts.

Obaigbena told investigators that he never benefitted from slush funds from the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA).

He said the administration of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan paid the said sums to “ThisDay” and the Newspapers Proprietors Association of Nigeria (NPAN) as compensation for the bombing of the newspaper house by Boko Haram and the seizure of copies of many newspapers by the military.

The attack occurred nearly two years after 200 girls were abducted by Boko Haram militants in the town.

About 60 people, including two soldiers injured in the attack are receiving treatments in various hospitals in the state.

Alhaji Yahaya Bello was yesterday sworn in as the governor of Kogi State, with a pledge to maintain zero-tolerance for corruption.

The Chief Judge of the state, Justice Nasiru Ajana, administered the oath of office on Bello, at a ceremony where his Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)-recognised deputy, James Abiodun Faleke, was unavailable.

See all the Twitter tirade that went down between Kanye West, Wiz Khalifa and Amber Rose today over change of Yeezy's Album Name

Kanye West went to town on Wiz Khalifa in an epic Twitter rant today after the star mocked him for changing the name of his new album.

It all started when the Black Skinhead hitmaker announced he was switching from the title Swish to Waves yesterday as he shared the tracklisting on Twitter.

Wiz made the point that MC Max B was the brains behind the 'wavy movement' with his lo-fi rap tunes in the mid-2000s.

Amber Rose has fired back at Kanye West after the rapper lashed out at the model and her ex Wiz Khalifa on Twitter. Read all that went down before Kanye took his tweets down:

American rapper, songwriter and actress, Kimberly Denise Jones, known by her stage name Lil' Kim, has used excessive plastic surgery to alter her body so much that she now looks too awful!

Below is how popular U.S gossip website, MediaTakeOut.com exclusively reported the story;

Fireworks, Street parties, jubiliation is currently ongoing in many parts of Rivers State after the verdict of Supreme Court declared Nyesom Wike winner of the 2015 Governorship Elections.

The Supreme Court of Nigeria sitting in Abuja has ruled in favor of Nyesom Wike’s appeal of the Rivers State gubernatorial race. According to statements made at the courthouse Mr. Wike’s “appeals are meritorious” and thereby set aside the decision of the Court of Appeal.

The dead body of a Puerto Rican man has been embalmed and placed seated on a poker table alongside friends and family.

The dead man, Henry Rosario Martinez died aged 31 on January 19th in his hometown of Barceloneta in northern Puerto Rico. The cause of death was alcohol consumption mixed with the taking of prescription drugs.

The family did not comment on the death, but local media hinted that it could have been a suicide.

President Muhammadu Buhari has departed Abuja this morning for Nairobi, Kenya on a three-day official visit.

He would equally leave the country on Friday for Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, for the summit of African Union leaders.

The president is accompanied to Kenya by the Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Finance, and Industry, Trade and Investment.

The actress stars as the fearless adventurer in the historical epic

Nicole Kidman gives a right eyeful in her new movie as explorer Gertrude Bell alongside James Franco and Robert Pattinson. The Oscar winning actress wears just a flimsy nightshirt as she submerges herself in a bathtub in the middle of the desert during the sensual scene. See the photos after cut...

Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, has said people want to destroy his relationship with president Muhammadu Buhari using false, fictitious and misinforming reports in various blogs and the social media.

He said the smear campaign was tagged, ‘Destroy the reputation of Tinubu and his relationship with Buhari’. This was made public in a statement by his media aide, Mr. Sunday Dare, on Tuesday.

According to SaharaReporters, the publisher of Thisday newspaper and the owner of Arise TV, Nduka Obaigbena, surrendered to agents of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in Abuja at 10:00 a.m. this morning.

Mr. Obaigbena is one of the primary players in the unfolding $2.1 billion arms scandal which has rocked Nigeria. The media mogul allegedly received N500 million to provide positive coverage of former President Goodluck Jonathan during the 2015 presidential elections.

Nigerian multi award-winning producer, singer and CEO of Mavin Records, Don Jazzy, who is still single and unmarried, took to his Twitter to announce to his fans that he is jetting to the country in a bid to finally get married to perhaps 2 or 4 wives right after a memo allegedly posted by the Eritrean government asking men to marry at least two wives due to acute shortage of men occasioned by casualties during the civil war with Ethiopia.

....things are already hard as HARD can be, so how much more can we endure???

The governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria has begged Nigerians to prepare for the economic hardship that will soon come because of the lingering crash in crude oil prices.

Nigerians have been warned to brace up for the hard times ahead as oil revenue is predicted to hit a record low. The Monetary Policy Committee of the Central Bank of Nigeria gave the warning on Tuesday warned.

The reclusive star has seemingly left his family fuming after hooking up with his older and little half sister's nemesis.

Khloe Kardashian has reportedly kicked brother Rob out of her house after Blac Chyna paraded their new relationship on Instagram.

Rob, who has lived with Khloe for years, first betrayed the famous family by getting with his little sister's nemesis, but then apparently took it one step further when he posted a picture on Instagram suggesting he wanted to have kids with the model.

Two policemen attached to the Ogbor Hill Police Division in Aba, Abia State, were killed by gunmen suspected to be armed robbers when they responded to a distress call at a supermarket near Ukaegbu Junction, along Ikot Ekpene Road, Ogbor Hill.

Abia State Police spokesman, DSP Ezekiel Onyeke, who confirmed the incident, told Vanguard that the police team got a distress call from a resident that armed robbers were operating in their area.

Expectant mothers and fathers will no longer have to wait until their child is born to hold their baby - all thanks to 3D printing.

According to Mirror Online, a tech company, Baby:Boo, helps parents-to-be create a life-like replica of their baby using a special scan of the pregnant woman's womb. That image is then sent off to be rendered into a 360 degree format, and printed in 3D.

Baby:Boo offers the 3D baby model in either a box to be held, or mounted in a frame for parents who may wish to display it in their home.

Chairman of the Natcom Development & Investment Limited, Olatunde Ayeni has said that new telecommunication lines would debut in three major cities in Nigeria, as the company concludes plan to venture into the market by March this year.

The Natcom boss said the three pilot cities are Abuja, Lagos and Port Harcourt, which the telecom giants would be launched, after its acquisition of the defunct Nigeria Telecommunication (NITEL) and Mobile Telecommunication (MTEL) through privatization process.

lol! Amist Trouble in Paradise, Amber Rose suddenly starts to follow Scott Disick on Twitter

Just shortly after Blac Chyna sent the internet into a spin with a picture of her cuddling up to Rob Kardashian, Amber Rose went and followed Scott Disick on Instagram.

The model, who dated Kim Kardashian’s hubby Kanye West, left fans wondering if she was deliberately adding more fuel to the rumours claiming Blac Chyna is only dating Rob to get back at Kylie Jenner who is currently dating her ex Tyga.

The Honourable Minister for Youths and Sports Barrister, Solomon Dalong was spotted having his breakfast yesterday, 25th of January at ‘mai shayi’s, shop, Bauchi Motor Park, Jos Plateau State.

...and that's humility!

Arms Deal: EFCC Seizes Dasuki, Top Military Officers' Houses (Photos)

It was learnt that property believed to belong to former National Security Adviser (NSA) Sambo Dasuki was over the weekend confiscated by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in Kaduna.

Dasuki, NSA to former President Goodluck Jonathan, is currently at the middle of a massive investigation into the alleged misapplication of about $2.1 billion meant for the procurement of arms.

The star sent fans into a frenzy when she posted a cosy-looking picture with Rob Kardashian.

Blac Chyna seemed completely oblivious to the media storm she created earlier in the day when she posted a series of revealing shots on her Instagram account.

Ignoring the fierce reaction on social media, hours later she went on to post a series of seriously raunchy shots of her famous curves. See more photos after cut...

About nine years after preferring the charges of alleged diversion of the Plateau State’s N1.126bn ecological funds against a former governor of the state, Joshua Dariye, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission finally opened its case before a Federal Capital Territory High Court in Gudu, Abuja, on Monday.

The trial began with a Supreme Court’s judgment delivered on February 27, 2015, laying to rest an interlocutory application filed by Dariye and which had stalled the trial since it was filed in 2007.

The apex court after dismissing Dariye’s appeal in the judgment ordered Dariye, who was the Plateau State governor between May 29, 1999 and May 18, 2004, to submit himself for trial.

A principal suspect in the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association, PENGASSAN, N559.5 million housing fraud (names withheld), has jumped bail and gone into hiding as operatives of the fraud unit, Panti, Lagos, intensify investigation into the scam.

Vanguard had earlier in the month, exclusively reported the scam that has put the umbrella body for senior staff in the nation’s petroleum industry in disarray.

Sources said his surety had been arrested by the operatives and was now helping to track down the suspect, a senior account staff of PENGASSAN.

Khloe Kardashian has warned a mystery person to "never go against the family" as she quoted The Godfather in a cryptic tweet.

Fans believed it was a thinly-veiled dig at her brother Rob and Tyga's ex Blac Chyna, who are the subject of speculation they could be dating after a picture emerged seemingly showing them looking very cosy.

The Reggae Blues crooner who is widely celebrated as a rave-making singer, took to instagram to showcase his grandmother and make this startling revelation about his days before fame.

Actress Uche Ogbodo shared this picture from the set of a new movie but most of her fans weren't feeling her nose ring which she has been rocking for a while now. She then replied asking one of them to commit suicide.

This led to a tensed up situation on her Instagram page, see screenshots after cut...

You know..."Baby Mama" has gradually crept into our Society as an "Occupation"

...and I just want to make common sense *in Ben Murray Bruce's voice*

Wait a minute...Wizkid Reportedly Welcomes Baby Number Two from US Based Video Vixen? (Photos)

A Guinean U.S-based beauty known as Diamond, has put Nigerian music star, Wizkid on major headlines today as it has been revealed that the Starboy boss has fathered his baby number two - a son.

The sexy lady who has been secretly dating Wizkid and reportedly hangs out a lot with him in the United States posted online alongside her friend, Natalie Nunn (both video vixens), and revealed that the baby is half-Nigerian, alleging that Wizkid is the father of the baby.

45-year-old British supermodel, Naomi Campbell and 27-year-old US rapper, A$AP Rocky, looked like they had known each other for years as the runway princess and M.C came together for a photo-shoot in POP Magazine.

Lightly flashing his trademark gold teeth, the hip-hop star, couldn't seem to believe his luck as the world's most famous supermodel lay on top of him half naked in pictures shot by Brianna Capozzi.

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Paul Okoye has joined in shading Nigerian artists who have in recent times claimed their songs were stolen by other artists.

Over the weeks since 2016 began, there have been accusations from different artists claiming that their songs had been stolen. The most recent song stealing accusation drama caused the Dammy Krane vs Wizkid drama, and the Shizzi vs Tunde Ednut clash, and now Blackface vs 2face.

Paul Okoye, the second half of the award winning duo, Psquare seems to find the whole thing very amusing, going by what he posted on Instagram some minutes back and threw shades at the accusers (although no names were mentioned).

See what he posted on Instagramafter cut...

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